Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

I've decided to get back into blogging a bit.  It really does help with the grieving process, mainly because Japanese baseball cards a...

A couple years ago I wrote a post about the baseball card store my dad and I opened back in the early 1990s.  The above photo was from op...

 This is Masaichi Kaneda's card from the 1958 Marukami black and white borderless set (JCM 31D). Kaneda is Japan's winningest pi...

 This is my oldest complete set, an uncut sheet of JCM 75 from 1947 featuring all 8 cards.  This is kind of cheating since I obviously got...

 In 1981 the Kansas City Royals went on a tour of Japan, playing games against NPB teams across the country.  The tour didn't exactly...

 Today I present some cards from the 1975 Pepsi Dragons set (JCM 71).  It is the most colorful set of cards....or anything for that matter...

 This is another antique dealer find: 3 uncut sheets of baseball menko cards from 1949-1950 (the set Engel catalogues as JRM-8). The s...